GRACE TALUSAN

Grace Talusan was born in the Philippines and raised in New England. A graduate of Tufts University and the MFA Program in Writing at UC Irvine, she is the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines and an Artist Fellowship Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Talusan teaches the Essay Incubator at GrubStreet and at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts. She is the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University for 2019–2021. The Body Papers, winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, is her first book.

BOOKS

By Grace Talusan

“Grace Talusan writes eloquently about the most unsayable things: the deep gravitational pull of family, the complexity of navigating identity as an immigrant, and the ways we move forward even as we carry our traumas with us. Equal parts compassion and confession, The Body Papers is a stunning work by a powerful new writer who—like the best memoirists—transcends the personal to speak on a universal level.”—Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere

Today, Publishers Weekly announced the winner of the 2017 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for Nonfiction: Grace Talusan, for her memoir The Body Papers. As detailed below in the judges' citation and author's statement about her book, The Body Papers is a brave, artful memoir about trauma, illness, and immigration as told through personal and official documentation. The book is scheduled to be published in the Fall of 2018.